A review of some Geographical Information Systems dedicated to humanitarian demining is presented together with PARADIS, a Prototype for Assisting Rational Activities in Demining using Images from Satellites, designed for the Mine Clearance Service of the Belgian Army.

We discuss the development and application of Web Service-based Geographical Information System Grids. Following the WS-I+ approach of building Grids on Web Service standards, we have developed Data Grid components for archival and real-time data, map generating services that can be used to build user interfaces, information services for storing both stateless and stateful metadata, and service...

1Fellow ship of Dermatopathology, Skin Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Razi Hospital, Rasht, Iran, 2Skin Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Razi Hospital, Rasht, Iran, 3Gastrointestinal and Liver Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Razi Hospital, Sardare Jangal St., Rasht, Iran, 4University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, 151...

On 10 May 2016, Guangdong Province, China, suffered a heavy rainstorm. This rainstorm flooded the whole city of Guangzhou. More than 100,000 people were affected by the flooding, in which eight people lost their lives. Subway stations, cars, and buses were submerged. In order to analyse the influential factors of this flooding, topographical characteristics were mapped using Digital Elevation M...

Natural language interface to spatial databases have not received a lot of attention in computational linguistics, in spite of the potential value of such systems for users of Geographical Information Systems (GISs). This paper presents a controlled language for GIS queries, solves some of the semantic problems for spatial inference in this language, and introduces a system that implements this...

42 Digital Reading Fluency and Text Presentation Medium Preference in EFL Context Jaleh Hasaskhah, Department of English Language and Literature, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran Behzad Barekat, Department of English Language and Literature, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran Nahid Farhang Asa, Department of English Language and Literature, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran InternatIonal Journal of DIgI...